Germaine Greer: Transgender women are 'not women' - BBC Newsnight

I was going to talk about women and power the lessons of the 20th century because I think there's a lot of triumphalist talk that masks the real historic situation and apparently people have decided that because I don't think that post-operative transgender men I am too f transgender people are women I'm not to be allowed to talk but surely if a man who feels that he actually would like gender reassignment to make him/her feel more comfortable in her body then that's what should be done nice they should be allowed to do that I'm not saying that people should not be allowed to go through that procedure what I'm saying is it doesn't make them a woman it happens to be an opinion it's not a prohibition carry on if if that's what you think it is you want to do I've been accused of inciting violence against transsexual people that's absolute nonsense but do you feel that the transgender community has to bigger voice now it seems to me you're saying that they're becoming what you might hope feminists were often called strident yes but they very seldom were striving to less I think that a great many women don't think that postoperative or even non post-operative transsexual m2f transsexual people look like sound like or behave like women but they don't they dare it say so but just because I dare and say so doesn't mean that that person can't feel like that and feels more comfortable with themselves yeah but so what all right that's not my issue I don't even talk about it not everybody does feel comfortable by the way postoperatively there's been a couple of cases I found very interesting where the actual acceptor of the procedure has felt that it's been a disaster but for those who do not feel it's been a disaster and feel more comfortable then do you understand how they might feel that you have been hurtful towards them people are hurtful to me all the time try being an old woman if you're good sake people get hurt all the time I'm not about to walk on eggshells so you believe in free speech really no matter what well not quite no matter what you don't have to say everything that's in your mind you do use tact in the usual way I would for example with someone with wish to be known as female use female speech forms as a courtesy now though people who are intersex are feeling a little more confident about coming forward and a level of acceptance but for for example a woman who outwardly as female genitalia but inside has testes and doesn't wish to have them rather than accepting that she has them she should be allowed to she and offered the chance to remove these inner testings we remove under Cindy testicles from men because they're dangerous I'm sure they wouldn't be allowed to just look because that would be I think that would be a problem I mean physically a problem but then it's also a problem if what you have to do after sex gender reassignment is use steroids every day of your life that's not a happy outcome either but it may be happy outcome for them and they may feel that you are in a way denigrating them for taking that road I don't even talk about them they're not my issue either haven't published anything about transgender for years so how do you feel about the idea that Newnham College your own College is considering not giving you an honorary doctorate apparently because of what you've said about the transgender community there's been two votes at my college on the question of whether or not I should have an honorary degree and I'm not going to get one they've been turned down which is thought by some people to be astonishing but not by me so someone like Caitlyn Jenner for example who yes who's been in front of lots of magazines and apparently is I think I might say getting an award for being a glamour Woman of the Year what do you think about that I think it's misogynist I'd I think miss Janee plays a really big part in all of this that a man who goes to these lengths will be a better woman than someone who was just born a woman but our people you would say necessarily born a woman a warning feeling female and if he feels more female it seems to me that he that what was going on there is that he he she wanted the limelight that the other female members of the family were enjoying and has conquered it just like that will young apparently has a new video out I don't think you've seen it in which a transgender person is going down the road and is abused reasonable position am I mistaken in thinking that this individual is naked and running down the street with just a hand over his her genitals you try running with your sagging breasts down the middle of the street and see what people will throw a rabbi cat over you and grab you and and call the police for sake it is simply not true that intersexual people suffer in a way that other people don't suffer would you ever consider seeing something more ameliorating no in I'm getting fed up with this you know I've had things thrown at me I've been accused of things I have never done or said people seem to have no concern about evidence or indeed even about libel if a man is his gender reassigned and outwardly and he feels inwardly is a woman in you of you can he be a woman or not no do you understand how people feel that's insulting I don't care people get insulted all the time Australians get insulted every day of the week finally if your safety is guaranteed will you go to Cardiff I'm getting a bit old for all this I'm 76 I don't want to go down there and be screamed at and have things thrown at me bugger it it's not that interesting or rewarding German go yeah thank you

Channel: BBC Newsnight

Views: 2,345,396

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Keywords: Newsnight, BBC, UK, politics, News, BBCNewsnight, germaine greer, kirsty wark, transexuality, transexual, bruce jenner, caitlin jenner, feminist, lgbt, gender, cardiff, university, interview, greer, germaine, bbc news, trans, transgender, germaine greer transgender, germaine greer quotes

Id: 7B8Q6D4a6TM

Length: 6min 44sec (404 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 23 2015

Reddit Comments

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Wait... trans people are misogynistic? Ok, this has broken my brain. Does not compute.

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I knew it would be a matter of time before she showed up. Anyone got a link to the pic when she shared the stage with Anita?

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A University (I forget which) has been pulling the "muh safe space" bollocks about it, too. Trying to get her banned foo speaking because she's transphobic. Even though I'm fairly certain what she was going to speak about had nothing to do with transgenderism.

They really do have a problem with trying to shut out hurtful things. Are they adults or babies? A University is a place of learning, not a safe space for people to shut their ears and be told they're right about everything. That pisses me off.

(She cancelled it.)

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The only attention the female kardashians get is negative attention

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Kinda shit press, eh?

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